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Henry Bakemeyer
Henry Bakemeyer has over 37 years experience
working in both custom and captive die casting environments and has a wide
range of field experience from die cast machine operator to part-owner of a
start-up die casting operation. Assignments have included design of casting
and secondary tooling; solving tooling and process related problems; and
complete managing of die cast projects from product start-ups to plant
start-ups. He has designed and supervised the construction of hundreds,
aluminum and zinc molds in his career. Henry has organized and conducted in
plant training programs from print reading to statistical process control,
and die casting technology. Add to this his extensive experience in
computer analysis of die cast die metal and heat flow.
Henry is an Electrical Engineering
graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and has NADCA certification as a
Die Casting Technician, Process Engineer and Tooling Engineer. He has
served as a NADCA instructor for 13 years in a range of education courses
including, Designing Casting Dies, Product Design, Die Materials Metallurgy,
Gating, Heat Flow, Dimensional Repeatability and SMED.
He is author of the NADCA Operator
Training Program and has served as a member of the NADCA Industry Product
Standards, Safety and Education committees. He is currently Chairman of
NADCA-Wisconsin Chapter 12.
Courses Henry teaches:
Introduction to Die Casting, Operating the Die Casting Machine, Die Casting Machine
Safety, Dimensional Repeatability, Die Material Metallurgy & Extending Die Life,
Engineering Die Casting Dies, Product Design, PQ2, Train the Trainer and Operator Training. |
Tom Camel
Mr. Camel has been consulting in the die casting
industry since 1987 and has rewritten the Die Casting Lubricants and
Coolants training material to reflect new developments in the die cast
industry. His experience includes analysis of die casting defects and
process problems; evaluation of, and solutions to cleaning and painting
problems; analysis of environmental issues. He has authored numerous
papers in metal casting technical/trade publications and forums in United
States, Australia, Brazil, UK, and Italy. He is a frequent chapter speaker
and has authored papers in NADCA TRANSACTIONS and DIE CASTING ENGINEER. Mr.
Camel has provided assistance to numerous die casters throughout the world
and has been influential in new developments in die lubricants and plunger
lubricants. Mr. Camel holds a B. S. in Chemistry from Michigan State
University and has spent many years as a research chemist developing
products for the steel, aluminum and die casting industries throughout the
world.
Courses Tom teaches:
Die Casting Lubricants and Coolants.
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Paul Cnossen
Mr.
Cnossen has been employed at Prince Machine since 1984. In this time he has held many
different positions including Electronics Technician, Machine Builder, Field Service
Technician, Machine Runoff, Inside Sales and Service, and presently as a Technical
Education Instructor. He has been involved with technical education in one form or another
since 1990 teaching mechanics, hydraulics, controls and machine operations.
He holds an associates degree in Applied Arts and Sciences.
Courses Paul teaches:
Machine Maintenance: Mechanics, Process Control, Machine Maintenance: Hydraulics and
Machine Maintenance: Electricity. |
Tim Cowell
Tim is the president of Cowell Chemical Inc.,
a consulting and lubricant manufacturing company located in Peru, IN.
Before starting this company in 2005,
Cowell was the technical director for G.W. Smith & Sons for six years, where
he was responsible for new product development, working with customers on
special projects and providing technical support to the sales engineers. He
also worked for Chrysler Corporation, in Kokomo, IN, for 12 years as a
chemical/metallurgical engineer.
Cowell earned a BS degree in chemistry
from Cedarville University. He has authored several articles on paint
adhesion problems and is currently an instructor for several NADCA courses.
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Edmund
A. Herman, PEMr. Herman holds a BS in
Industrial Engineering from General Motors Institute and Master of Science in Industrial
Engineering-Operations Research from the University of Michigan. He is a Professional
Engineer registered in Michigan. He has 34 years experience in industry (General Motors)
and five years as the Education Director for the Society of Die Casting Engineers (now
NADCA). His industrial experience includes ten years as a die and process engineer for a
die casting facility having full responsibility for getting the die casting dies and all
other tooling designed, built and running for new die cast products; creation of physical
standards for die casting dies and new die casting process developments such as the
introduction of thermal analysis into the normal die design process. These
responsibilities include equipment selection, plant layout, process control and the
instruction of the operation and maintenance people involved with those products. He has
24 years with General Motors in new process development in the areas of molding sheet
molding compounds and draw die developments for sheet metal stamping dies. Instrumental in
the shift from physical plaster developments to total CAD design of sheet metal draw die
developments within General Motors. He has authored several textbooks and magazine
articles for NADCA and has instructed NADCA courses since 1972. He has taught continuing
education courses on die casting, stamping and injection molding through Oakland and Wayne
State Universities. He helped the Australian Government Fellowship to set up the
Australian Advanced Certificate program on Die Casting, including writing the textbooks,
which is being run by their Technical and Further Education (TAFE) system.
Courses Ed teaches: Engineering Die
Casting Dies, Gating Design, Process Control and Die Casting Defects. |
Scott Kirkman
Mr.
Kirkman brings to the die
casting industry 14 years experience working with Brillcast Inc., General Motors,
Madison-Kipp, Nicollet Process Engineering and Strattec Security Corporation. Mr. Kirkman
completed his B.S. degree in Engineering at GMI Engineering & Management Institute,
Flint, MI, and is currently finishing his masters degree in Engineering at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. His area of expertise is the implementation of new
technologies and methods in the die casting industry, particularly process monitoring
technologies and statistically based process analysis and improvement. His future
interests include the development of improved process planning tools to provide more
deterministic methods for managing the die cast product cradle-to-grave loop.
Courses Scott teaches: Gating Design, Die Cast Problem Solving,
Cost Estimating and Die Casting Lubricants & Coolants. |
Dan
Meyer
Dan
Meyer has over 16 years experience in the metal casting industry. Dan
started early in the casting industry breaking off gates and later machining
and welding non-ferrous sand castings. He then moved into the die casting
industry where he has gained experience with the die casting process,
manufacturing engineering, die design, and project engineering at a wide
variety of companies. While working in the casting industry Dan developed
many casting product designs, often converting part designs from other
manufacturing processes. Dan also spent a short amount of time as a product
design engineer for audio visual mounting systems.
Dan has a Bachelor's Degree in Manufacturing Technology and Management from
the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and an Associate in Applied
Science Degree in Manufacturing Technology from Prairie State College in
Chicago Heights, Illinois.
Courses Dan teaches: Product Design
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David V.
Neff
Mr. Neff
holds a BS, MS, and a Ph.D in Metallurgy from Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, Ohio. He is a member of NADCA, AFS, TMS and ASM.
Neff has authored more than 60 papers in
metalcasting technical/trade publications and forums in United States,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, UK, and Italy. He has 30 years experience
in nonferrous and ferrous metal casting and supplier industries.
Neff's major expertise is in molten metal
treatment, product applications, technical service, sales and marketing of
metalcasting product technology to the aluminum secondary, die casting,
foundry, and mill products industries. Neff is
currently employed as the Manager-Molten Metal Treatment for Metaullics
Systems Division of Pyrotek, Inc. He has worldwide sales/marketing/technical
service responsibility for filtration, degassing product technology.
Courses Dave teaches: Metal Management and
Metallurgy of Die Casting Alloys. |
Bill Walkington
Mr.
Walkington is the president of Walkington Engineering Inc., a private consulting practice
serving the die casting industry for more than 10 years. His consulting experience
includes: analysis of die casting defects and process problems; computer analysis of metal
flow and thermal systems, designing specialized training programs; planning for plant
expansion; turnkey tooling projects, including die design, die build and sampling; product
engineering assistance to develop a well engineered product that will be a good casting,
and other projects. He has developed teams that include other qualified specialists for
projects as needed.
His customers have included: General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Corp.,
Chrysler Corp., Mercury Marine, Briggs and Stratton Corp., Noranda, and numerous others.
His previous experience includes Engineering Manager for
Madison-Kipp and Chief Engineer at another die casting company. His experience at these
companies included process engineering, manufacturing engineering, plant engineering, and
manager of engineering. His typical project was to set up an automation program on 20
aluminum die casting machines; this program resulted in one operator for every three 600
ton aluminum die casting machines.
Mr. Walkington holds a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin in
Electrical Engineering and B.S. from the University of Idaho in Agricultural Engineering.
He is also a Registered Engineer, State of Wisconsin.
His affiliations include NADCA, where he is a member of the National
Board of Governors. He is also the Vice Chairman of the R & D Committee, Chairman of
the Computer Modeling Task Force, NADCA Wisconsin Chapter 12 Board of Directors and past
chapter chairman.
He is the author of several NADCA textbooks on die casting defects
and troubleshooting. He developed an education course on defects and PQ2 . He also
developed a computer program for PQ2 that is still in general use.
Courses Bill teaches:
Process Control, PQ2, Die Casting Defects, and Gating Design. |
Mike Ward
Mr.
Ward holds a B.S.M.E. from Drexel University and an M.B.A. from Wayne State University.
His professional experience includes: Ward &
AssociatesConsultant to Manufacturing, which provides engineered solutions to
manufacturing operations. Most of the work is in the die casting industry-die cast
engineering design, process development, facility planning, and financial analysis.
Prior to his employment at Ward & Associates, he worked at
Dynacast as the Aluminum Manager and Manufacturing Engineering Manager. He built the Elgin
aluminum die cast facility from scratch by developing and implementing a capital plan of
$3.1 million; purchasing the equipment and machinery; hiring key engineers and
supervisors; engineering the die and the process; having $1.1 million of tooling built;
establishing the standard operating procedures, the control plan, and the preventative
maintenance plan; launching the plant and was responsible for the aluminum P&L
statement. He achieved an annual turnover rate of $8 million in 18 months. He later served
as an internal consultant to Dynacast plants in North America and Europe working with
zinc, aluminum, and magnesium. He also worked at Lunt Manufacturing as an Engineering
Manager. He was responsible for design, construction, and process development of magnesium
die cast dies. He also worked at Woodstock Die Cast as an Engineering Manager. He was
responsible for the design, construction, and maintenance of zinc and aluminum casting
dies and secondary tooling along with process development.
Courses Mike teaches: Gating Design, Die Cooling Systems
Engineering, Process Control and Die Casting Defects. |
Ed Wrench
Mr.
Wrench is currently employed by Auto Cast Inc., Grandville, Mich. He started at Auto Cast
as a die cast machine operator, and was named a maintenance position in 1990, and became a
Process Engineer in 1993.
His responsibilities include working directly with the maintenance
supervisor to ensure all equipment is maintained properly; purchasing and designing of new
equipment; machine installations and startups; electrical control design systems and PLC
Programming of all plant equipment; developing and establishing die casting process
procedures and parameters for zinc and aluminum die casting machines and tools; training
of all plant personnel in areas such as machine maintenance, shot monitoring equipment and
machine setup; and working directly with product design department in new tool design and
improving existing tools and their process parameters.
He is experienced in electrical control system
troubleshooting and design, hydraulic control systems troubleshooting and design, machine
repair and diagnosing of die cast machines, PLC programming and installations, die casting
skills (gating, thermal, process engineering, die design), shot monitoring equipment
installations and training.
He is a NADCA Certified Die Casting Technician and a NADCA Master of
Die Casting Maintenance.
He attended Ferris State University and Grand Rapids Community
College where he studied Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Hydraulics.
Courses Ed teaches:
Machine Maintenance: Hydraulics, Machine Maintenance: Mechanics, Machine Maintenance:
Electricity, Gating Design and Process Control. |
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